Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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heir masters call, wag their tails, lickhis hands, crouch, jump round him to becaressed, and throw themselves on theirbacks in submission. When in high spiritsthey run round in circles or in a figure ofeight, with their tails between their legs.Their howl becomes a businesslike bark.They smell at the tails of other dogs and THE NEW BOOK OE THE DOG. void their urine sideways, and lastly, likeour domestic favourites, however refinedand gentlemanly in other respects, theycannot be broken of the habit of rolling oncarrion or on animals they have killed.* This last habit of the domestic dog isone of the surviving traits of his wildancestry, which, like his habits of burying the St. Bernard and the miniature Blackand Tan Terrier, and is perplexed in con-templating the possibility of their havingdescended from a common progenitor. Yetthe disparity is no greater than that be-tween the Shire horse and the Shetlandpony, the Shorthorn and the Kerry cattle,or the Patagonian and the Pigmy; and all
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SKELETON OF A RETRIEVER IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. bones or superfluous food, and of turninground and round on a carpet as if to makea bed for himself before lying down, gofar towards connecting him in direct rela-tionship with the wolf and the jackal. Tlie great multitude of different breedsof the dog and the vast differences in theirsize, points, and general appearance arefacts which make it difficult to believe thatthey could have had a common ancestry.One thinks of the difference between theMastiff and the Japanese Spaniel, theDeerhound and the fashionable Pomeranian, * Darwin: •• Variations of Animals and Plantsundm Domestication. dog breeders know how easy it is to producea variety in type and size by studiedselection. In order properly to understand thisquestion it is necessary first to considerthe identity of structure in the wolf andthe dog. This identity of structure maybest be studied in a comparison of theosseous system, or skeletons, of the twoanimal

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